django - python built in server not loading css

Question

when i runserver the django admin is missing css.The web console says that style sheet was not loaded because its MIME type,"application/x-css", is not "text/css". This is my settings.py file

Django settings for mysite project.

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

ADMINS = (
    # ('Your Name', '[email protected]'),
)

MANAGERS = ADMINS

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 
        'NAME': 'C:/djangorevision/mysite/sqlite3.db',                       database 
        'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
        'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
        'HOST': '',                   
        'PORT': '',                     
    }
}

ALLOWED_HOSTS = []


TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'


LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

SITE_ID = 1

# If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
# to load the internationalization machinery.
USE_I18N = True

# If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
# calendars according to the current locale.
USE_L10N = True


USE_TZ = True

MEDIA_ROOT = ''

MEDIA_URL = ''


STATIC_ROOT = 'C:/djangorevision/mysite/static'

# URL prefix for static files.
# Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (

)

# List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
# various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
 #    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

# Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
SECRET_KEY = '*4#u_xz-+7cp-x-)w(o*sr1&1$^fa409_d@7!&z%_(93u=@s=o'

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
#     'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
)

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection:
    # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'mysite.urls'

# Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver.
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mysite.wsgi.application'

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
  )

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
     'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
    'polls'

)

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'filters': {
        'require_debug_false': {
        }
    },
    'handlers': {
        'mail_admins': {
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'filters': ['require_debug_false'],
            'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
        }
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django.request': {
            'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
            'level': 'ERROR',
            'propagate': True,`enter code here`
        },
    }
}

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem. And it seems you are right about Dreamweaver. Adding above mentioned strings into settings.py didn't helped me.

I have run search for .css at regedit and changed most suspicious registry keys/records which

1. could be related to treating .css files as application/x-css type
2. could be related to associating .css file extension to opening with applications, especially Dreamweaver.

It took me two iterations and I can not say for sure which one was the right shot as it might needed some time to update some cache, etc.

Though I changed it at two locations:

1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses.css
2. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.css

I renamed (by adding leading '--' so that it could be recovered if necessary) keys/records related to .css files association with all applications (including Dreamweaver, Notepad, etc.) and stating .css files as application/x-css type.

After that the issue was resolved and Django CSS styles were correctly applied as it was expected.